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A collection of Caldecott Medalist Maurice Sendak's critical writings devoted to authors and artists whose work he admired, including Randolph Caldecott, Beatrix Potter, and Walt Disney, along with several interviews and autobiographical pieces. Now with a new introduction by Sergio Ruzzier!...

想像を絶するほどの貧困、高等小学校卒、40歳を過ぎて文壇デビュー、そして国民作家へ。逆境から運をつかみ取った生涯を描く、松本清張「初の本格評伝」が登場！

In between the partying, the drugs, the love affairs, the 'squalid overboogie' of it all, Eve Babitz made time to chronicle the world as she saw it in works like Eve's Hollywood; Slow Days, Fast Company and Sex and Rage. But Babitz considered her letters 'the kind of writing I do best,' calling...

‘Fiennes has exceptional gifts, and he has written a small masterpiece, a tribute to the power of place, family and memory’ Sunday Telegraph William Fiennes’ childhood was one of imagination and curiosity, bounded only by the horizon he saw from the roof-tiles of his ancient family home...

'As compelling as any du Maurier mystery - an extraordinary family saga wonderfully told' GYLES BRANDRETH 'An unforgettable portrait of Daphne du Maurier' TATIANA DE ROSNAY, author of Manderley Forever An intimate, revelatory family biography of the iconic writer Daphne du Maurier and her famous...

Good Villains is an odyssey into the minds of America's most polarizing figures—those who blur the line between icon and outcast. It begins with an unexpected encounter with Ye (formerly Kanye West) in late 2022, shortly after his billion-dollar empire collapsed and his presidential ambitions spiraled into chaos. What unfolds is a journey across the country, as author Shane Cashman gains unprecedented access to controversial cultural figures such as Alex Jones, Kari Lake, and Riff Raff—culminating in a harrowing profile of a woman at the center of a viral human trafficking controversy.

Stephen Greenblatt’s early masterwork on Sir Walter Ralegh’s life as art, AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AUDIO! Exposing the tensions and contradictions of Renaissance England, Stephen Greenblatt presents Sir Walter Ralegh as a symbol of his age—focusing on his lifelong attempt to fashion...

Dans ce deuxième tome du Journal (1850–1854), Eugène Delacroix, chef de file du romantisme français, consigne ses pensées sur la création, le travail et les mœurs artistiques de son époque. Entre ébauches d’idées, notations fulgurantes et confidences retenues, se révèle l’atelier intérieur d’un maître à pleine maturité, lucide sur ses exigences comme sur ses doutes.

Chronique ultime des Mémoires de la vie littéraire, ce neuvième volume du Journal des Goncourt couvre les années 1892 à 1895. Au fil de journées datées — dès un 1er janvier aux notes flottantes — Edmond de Goncourt, plume acérée et sensible, poursuit sa notation du monde des lettres, des humeurs, des amitiés et des heurts de la fin du siècle. Préfacé à Auteuil en 1896, il l’annonce comme le dernier qu’il publiera de son vivant.

Anthony Bourdain represented many things to many people – and he had many sides. But no part of his identity was more important to him than that of a writer; it was one of the central ways he saw himself. Revealing Anthony Bourdain's observant, curious and hungry mind, The Anthony Bourdain Reader is a collection of Bourdain's best writing and touches on his many pursuits and passions, from restaurant life to family life to the 'low life', from TV to travel through places like Vietnam, Buenos Aires, Paris and Shanghai.

Bloomsbury presents The Man Who Invented Fiction by William Egginton, read by Matt Fletcher-Macdonald. ‘In 1605 a crippled, greying, almost toothless veteran of Spain’s wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book...

Brought to you by Penguin. **ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY** In this remarkable work of autobiography, the son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life, including the...

Ian Brown, award-winning author of The Boy in the Moon and the memoir Sixty, now recounts his daily reckoning with the milestone age of seventy. Fearlessly candid, often funny and relentlessly real, Brown asks the terrifying questions we all have about growing old, even when he doesn’t want to...

“Una historia desgarradora sobre el otro lado de la experiencia del inmigrante a EEUU– la penuria y la desolación de los niños dejados atrás por sus padres.” —Sonia Nazario, ganadora del premio Pulitzer y autora de La travesía de Enrique Cuando el padre de Reyna Grande deja a su...

A tribute to a great man, an important and interesting writer, an inspiring teacher, and a friend some will not likely find again. Roger Lancelyn Green and Walter Hooper wrote a memorable biography about their pal, C.S. Lewis. "...We have sought to tell his story as best we could, to lay before...

Isabel Allende nimmt uns mit auf eine Abenteuerreise, dorthin, wo ihre Geschichten und Romane entstehen. Vor allem aber erzählt uns Isabel Allende von sich selbst – denn das Schreiben ist für sie nicht bloß Handwerk, es ist ein unaufhörlicher Drang, ein Akt der Hingabe, eine zutiefst menschliche Möglichkeit, das flirrende Chaos der Welt zu bändigen, dem eigenen Leben einen Sinn zu geben.

A critical biography of Harlem Renaissance writer Jean Toomer and his lifelong struggle to transcend race, by an award-winning author The poet and novelist Jean Toomer (1894–1967) was among the most influential figures of the Harlem Renaissance, inspiring generations of Black writers with his...

Kay Thompson’s larger-than-life story is an effervescent toast to show business with a shot of Auntie Mame and a twist of The Devil Wears Prada. A multi-threat entertainer and a world-class eccentric, Kay Thompson was the mentor/best friend of Judy Garland, the vocal guru for Frank Sinatra and...

With Virginia Woolf as a guide, the stories of eight radical 20th century women--wanderers, rebels, explorers, mentors--who made a life for themselves in spite of everything. Everything that changed in the 20th century changed more dramatically for women. Her Own Voice tells the stories of eight...

Die Romantik war eine Epoche der Gefühle, der Fantasie und des Aufbruchs. In diesem Hörbuch begegnen Sie 15 außergewöhnlichen Persönlichkeiten aus Literatur, Musik, Kunst, die das Denken und Fühlen ihrer Zeit geprägt haben.